Word: raids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) met in Amman for three days of almost nonstop meetings. They were concerned about a Cabinet reshuffle in Jordan that put anti-commando men into key positions and embarrassed by an unseemly squabble over credit for a successful raid three weeks ago. Other commando chieftains also joined the talks, and the upshot was a pledge of increased coordination. Just how long the agreement will last remains to be seen: the same groups have come together in the past, only to dissolve once the immediate threat has ended. Israelis welcomed...
...proposition that the Israelis, on the basis of past experience, bitterly oppose. As long as peace hopes remain dim, the prospect of more expansive military action remains-and in Israel at week's end there was talk of a brisk Israeli reply soon to Egypt's Suez raid...
...have contacts with Harvard--especially since last April's incident. We want out sources to remain anonymous. But we've had things to do at Harvard prior to the raid," Ahern said...
From all appearances Fort Wainwright Field outside of Fairbanks might have been launching World War II bombing runs. Antique B-25s, the first U.S. planes to raid Tokyo, lumbered down the runway as old Liberator bombers tested their engines for takeoff. The planes were engaged in a different kind of warfare. More than 2.8 million acres of Alaska's timber and tundra-an area more than twice the size of Delaware -have burned this year. The planes' mission: dropping chemicals to slow the fires' advance...
Responding in kind, Israeli commandos raided an Egyptian coast guard station at Ras Adabiya, seven miles southwest of Suez. They claimed 15 Egyptians killed and a small radar station destroyed, at a cost of two men wounded. In a second raid, this time on Jordan, Israeli commandos blasted the $30 million East Ghor irrigation duct...